WEBVTT BRIAN: 21-YEAR-OLD JAMES FIELDS JUNIOR GREW UP IN FLORENCE. GRADUATING FROM COOPER HIGH SCHOOL IN 2015. HIS NAME MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES,LAST YEAR,AFTER A WHITE NATIONALIST RALLY IN CHARLOTTESTVILLE VIRGINIA TURNED -- CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA TURNED VIOLENT. HEATHER HEYER WAS KILLED. TODAY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED 30 HATE CRIME CHARGES AGAINST FIELDS. INVESTIGATORS SAY HE PLOWED HIS CAR THROUGH A CROWD OF COUNTER-PROTESTERS DURING LAST SUMMER’S RALLY. THE 8 PAGE INDICTMENT SAYS FIELDS DECIDED TO ATTEND THE RALLY AUGUST EIGHT RECORDS SAY HE GOT A TEXT MESSAGE FROM A RELATIVE WHO SAID BE CAREFUL, HE REPLIED TO THE MESSAGE WITH A PHOTO OF ADOLF HITLER SAYING HE DIDN’T NEED TO BE CAREFUL. DURING THE AUGUST 12 RALLY, THE INDICTMENT SAYS FIELDS ALSO ENGAGED IN RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC CHANTS. >> WE ARE CONTINUING TO PROSECUTE HATE CRIMES ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. HATE CRIMES ARE SERIOUS, VIOLENT AND REPUGNANT CRIMES. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS KIND OF LAWLESSNESS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE OR ANYWHERE ELSE. BRIAN: FIELDS ALREADY FACES STATE CHARGES INCLUDING FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND IS SET TO FACE A JURY TRIAL LATER THIS YEAR.

Federal hate crime charges have been filed against a man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people who were protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman and injuring dozens more.

The Department of Justice announced that an indictment returned Wednesday charges 21-year-old James Alex Fields, of Ohio, with 30 crimes, including one count of a hate crime resulting in the death of Heather Heyer and 28 other hate crimes involving an attempt to kill other people who were injured.

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Fields already faces state charges of first-degree murder and other crimes.

Fields was photographed hours before the attack with a shield bearing the emblem of one of the hate groups taking part in the rally. He has been in custody since then.

He's originally from Boone County, Kentucky, and a graduate of Cooper High School.Former teacher Derek Weimer has said Fields was fascinated in high school with Nazism, idolized Adolf Hitler and had been singled out by officials at his Union, Kentucky, school for deeply held radical convictions on race.